#2066 Issue closed: BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE not working with BACKUP=NBU¶
Labels: support / question, needs sponsorship, external tool
flechoide opened issue at 2019-03-05 11:39:¶
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ReaR version ("/usr/sbin/rear -V"): Relax-and-Recover 2.1-git201706071007 / 2017-06-07
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OS version ("cat /etc/rear/os.conf" or "lsb_release -a" or "cat /etc/os-release"):
OS_VENDOR=RedHatEnterpriseServer
OS_VERSION=7
LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
Release: 7.3
Codename: Maipo
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ReaR configuration files ("cat /etc/rear/site.conf" and/or "cat /etc/rear/local.conf"):
See below -
Hardware (PC or PowerNV BareMetal or ARM) or virtual machine (KVM guest or PoverVM LPAR):
physical machine, del poweredge -
System architecture (x86 compatible or PPC64/PPC64LE or what exact ARM device):
x86_64
Hello ,
Im stuck trying to exclude directories (not whole filesystems) from one
of our backup media servers, I need that in order to get the iso file
smaller, so I put into my local.conf :
BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( ${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]} '/usr/openv/netbackup/client/*' '/usr/openv/pack/*' '/usr/openv/logs/*' )
But when I launch rear I get that output :
2019-03-05 12:20:24 Files being excluded: dev/shm dev/oracleasm dev/.udev dev/shm/* /etc/pki/tls/private /etc/pki/CA/private /etc/pki/nssdb/key*.db /us /openv/netbackup/bin/xbp
So it seems like he is not excluding the sub-folders
Not sure if its related but /usr/openv is a filesystem mount
root@DELZP042-PRO:/root# df -Ph /usr/openv/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg00-lv_nbu 20G 6.9G 12G 37% /usr/openv
My local.conf :
OUTPUT=ISO
BACKUP=NBU
COPY_AS_IS_NBU=( /usr/openv /opt/VRTSpbx /etc/vx /etc/init.d/vxpbx_exchanged ) ONLY_INCLUDE_VG=("vg00")
PROGS_NBU=( )
PROGS=( "${PROGS[@]}" /bin/ping6 /usr/bin/telnet ) BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( ${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]} '/usr/openv/netbackup/client/*' /usr/openv/pack/*' '/usr/openv/logs/*' )
ISO_DIR=/rear/DELZP042
export TMPDIR=/rear/DELZP042
jsmeix commented at 2019-03-05 13:06:¶
I do not use NBU (Symantec/Veritas NetBackup)
because I do not have any kind of proprietary software
like third-party backup tools but I assume
BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE is not supported for BACKUP=NBU
because this are the only ReaR scripts that use BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE
# find usr/share/rear -name '*.sh' | xargs grep -l "BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE"
usr/share/rear/layout/save/default/320_autoexclude.sh
usr/share/rear/backup/RSYNC/default/400_create_include_exclude_files.sh
usr/share/rear/backup/TSM/default/400_create_include_exclude_files.sh
usr/share/rear/backup/NETFS/default/400_create_include_exclude_files.sh
usr/share/rear/backup/YUM/default/400_create_include_exclude_files.sh
usr/share/rear/backup/BORG/default/400_create_include_exclude_files.sh
See the BACKUP SOFTWARE INTEGRATION section in man rear
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/rear.8.adoc
See also usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf (excerpts)
# Internal BACKUP stuff
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# These settings apply to all cases of internal Relax-and-Recover backup
...
# BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE is an array of strings that get written into a backup-exclude.txt file
# that is used e.g. in 'tar -X backup-exclude.txt' to get things excluded from the backup.
but you do not use a ReaR internal backup method but
the third-party BACKUP=NBU method, see also the section about
"Relax-and-Recover versus backup and restore" in
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Disaster_Recovery
flechoide commented at 2019-03-05 14:00:¶
Hello, thanks for the reply, I realized here I have a defined variables with the paths :
root@DELZP042-PRO:/root# grep -Ri logs /usr/share/rear/* \| grep NBU
/usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf:COPY_AS_IS_EXCLUDE_NBU=( "/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/*" "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpjava*" "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xbp" '/usr/openv/netbackup/client/*' '/usr/openv/pack/*' )
/usr/share/rear/conf/examples/RHEL6-NETFS-of-NBU-master-example.conf:BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE=( "${BACKUP_PROG_EXCLUDE[@]}" '/usr/openv/tmp/*' '/nbu/logs/openv/logs/nbdisco/*' '/nbu/logs/openv/logs/nbsvcmon/*' '/nbu/lo gs/openv/logs/nbrmms/*' '/nbu/logs/openv/logs/nbsl/*' )
So I have edited this file the /usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf and I
placed the directories I wanted to exclude, now it seems to be working .
May I ask if I can append those directories from my os.conf or my local.conf in some way since I understand the file /usr/share/rear/conf/default.conf is not supposed to be modified
gdha commented at 2019-03-05 16:43:¶
If you add these variables in the /etc/rear/local.conf file then they
will over-rule the ones defined in the default.conf file
flechoide commented at 2019-03-06 07:55:¶
I realize that syntax is bash ?? Its an asociative array ?? If I do in my local.conf
COPY_AS_IS_EXCLUDE_NBU=( ${COPY_AS_IS_EXCLUDE_NBU[@]} "/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/*" "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpjava*" "/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/xbp" '/usr/openv/netbackup/client/*' '/usr/openv/pack/*' )
I understand it will work as expected
jsmeix commented at 2019-03-06 10:24:¶
@flechoide
basically all in ReaR is bash, also config files
are sourced and executed as bash scipts.
Normally ReaR does not use associative arrays - only indexed arrays.
But I know nothing about how NBU stuff is implemented in ReaR.
In general COPY_AS_IS variables mean totally different things
than backup related stuff - but I know nothing about NBU and
how NBU stuff is implemented in ReaR.
flechoide commented at 2019-03-18 07:35:¶
Ok, I understand, I thank you all for the help, finally I was able to implement the backup and it worked as expected with the COPY_AS_IS_EXCLUDE_NBU variable into the local.conf file from /etc/rear .
Please the case can be closed
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